p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta is standing in front of the mirror in his bedroom as he's examining his appearance. He's wearing a very dark charcoal suit combined with white shirt and black tie. His brown buzz cut hair is combed perfectly and he's also clean shaved too. Tonight, he looks all sharp and perfect. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He then goes to a desk besides the wardrobe to take his Hublot watch that he only wears to certain events. It has the accent of silver and gold. He wears it on his left wrist. For his final touch, he wears a medium sized black cowboy hat. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He drew inspiration from his favourite show on TV, Yellowstone as he copied John Dutton's formal looks. Not only from Yellowstone, from the very childhood days, Ryouta already took a liking in anything about cowboy and ranch life. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"After that he grabs his phone, car key, and wallet and put them all into his blazer's inner pocket./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Okay, everything is neat" he said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He closes the door to his bedroom and make his way downstairs. He takes a pair of shiny black pantoffle that he's also only wear in certain events from the rack near the entrance door and bring them to the living room. He sits on one of the sofas, putting the socks on and the pantoffle on. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He then looks at the clock on the wall that says "16:45 PM". The reunion event is exactly an hour and fifteen minutes from now. He gets up from the chair and gets the home keys that he stored inside a box near the TV. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Before he's out, he's making sure that everything in his home is in order. He turns off all the lamps and lock the doors. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He then opens his front gate and hops in to his already full cleaned car. He starts the engine and drive it up to the outside. He closes the gate shut and then hops back into his car and starts driving forwards. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"It will be a long one hour and thirty minutes of drive to the neighbouring prefecture where the reunion event is held. To ease off the quietness in his car, he decides to turn on the radio station. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"As he stops to the ongoing red-light on an intersection, his mind wondering about what would he expect or meet on the reunion party. Everybody must be old right now and looks so different. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Some of them are now probably politicians, some of then are now maybe sitting on top of their family's business, or maybe they created new ones for them using the fortunes that they already got from their family and their time of wagering in high school. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Besides the big shots of gamblers that he knew back then, he can say that basically everyone in the school is crazy and sometimes showing psychopath and sociopath traits depends on the level. Sometimes, when he thought about it, he feels that he might be the only one who's sane enough on the ocean of maniacs although at some extend, he enjoys the stake of gambling. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Their facial expression, the way they look to each other, is just primal. He remembered well on his lowest time when his status at school relegated to "pet" or basically sub-human where everyone can treat him in every possible horrible way. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He became foot-stool, people are spat on him, and so many others and he's about to meet them again in this reunion. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"That's the world that he lives in. It's full of harsh realities and he learnt much from it. And even until today, he still found fragments of implementation of what he sees back in school in society that he currently lives in as adult. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"On the other hand, he also thought that, maybe after all these years, their freakish side already reduced a lot or probably not as they tend to be more hidden. But basically, humans are living in some kind of drama with their mask. At least, that is his understanding from a sociology book that he read a long time ago. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"But behind all of that fakeness, there's always hidden truth, love, and pure kindness. Not all things are going like to the way everybody will have trust issue to each other. Like when he found the love of his life is one of many examples. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Back then, he also saw competitions everywhere, but he realized that life is not always goes like that. Hard work is a must to stay alive, but sometimes, pulling the slow tempo is needed. Just flow like the calm river like his late wife said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"…./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"After an hour-long drive, Ryouta finally arrives at the convention centre. He is in awe on how big it is. It's shaped like a massive dome and the premises is already filled with cars in front of him already lining up to enters the front ground. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Oh boy, the medias are here too" said Ryouta to his mind as he sees some people are preparing cameras and other broadcasting stuff. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Well, some days before, he saw a news coverage on one of the online media that told that Hyakkaou Academy's reunion event will be the largest in history of Japan with more than 2500 participants. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"When Ryouta read the news, he also thinks that it's not only being the largest attendances, but also what kind of people who attended the event. It's the perfect arena to making some fresh new connections. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"From afar, Ryouta can see dozens of valets waiting in front of the main entrance of the convention centre. They take guest cars and giving the owners some kind of numbers in small paper that must be given back to the valets once they want to get off at the end of the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"It's really helpful for him since finding parking spot on his own will be troublesome and waste of time. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"The car queue is slowly reduced and it's now his time to gets off. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Good evening, Sir" said one of the valets as he opens Ryouta's car door. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Good evening, the key is still there. Keep it spotless" said Ryouta to the valet as he gets off from his car. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yes, Sir. Here's your number and when you off later, give this to one of the valets, so they can take your car to you" said the valet while handing him the number. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thank you" said Ryouta as he immediately put the number paper on his shirt's pocket. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"After that, he makes his way to the inside. Ryouta then goes to the receptionist table to register while some people is looking at him with amazed look on their face. Probably because of his cowboy hat. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Good evening, sir, May I see your invitation?" said one of the receptionists. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Wait" said Ryouta as pulls out his phone and shows the invitation to the receptionist. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Ah, Mr. Suzui Ryouta. Class of 2017. Here's your souvenir and the event are on the second floor on the main hall, enjoy your time, Sir," said the receptionist. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thank you," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He then makes his way to one of the lifts and press the button to second floor. He's the only one here and the easy listening music on the lift is kind of catchy too. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"As he arrives at the second floor. It's already flooded with people who dressed the same like him for the man and for the women, they dressed in either fancy gown or elegant kimono. Some people then turned their attention to him and whispers to each other's. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""emWho's that handsome cowboy-looking man/em?" said one of them in whispers. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""emI don't know, but that hat surely fits for him/em" said the another. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta don't pay too much attention to them and make his way straight to the hall. When he gets there, he's immediately in awe of the decorations of the hall. The crowds are chatting lively to each other's. There's a huge stage where a band plays jazz song too and huge banner which says "Welcome back Class of 2016, 2017, and 2018". /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Then, Ryouta starts looking around while walking between the crowds. Everyone is already changing so much and some of them are bringing their kids too. Some of them are looking at Ryouta too. Probably for his cowboy hat. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Then, a man who wears a grey suit with well groomed moustache is approaching him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Hey, excuse me. Are you by any chance, Suzui Ryouta from Class of 2017?" he said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta looks at him with confused looks. "Yeah, I 'am, but I'm sorry because it's been a long time and all, but who you might be?" he said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""It's me man, Takao. Musashi Takao" he said with enthusiastic gesture. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta squints his eyes and immediately smile. He recognized him. Takao is one of Ryouta's few friends in Hyakkaou style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThey are classmates in their first and third years of high school. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Oh, Lord. It's really you. What's up, fella. You look so different" said Ryouta while they doing a casual handshake. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I'm good man, and wow, that cowboy hat really suits you so much and you also look so different too and I almost not recognized you," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thanks man and the moustache you have there is really neat. So, after all these years, how's life treatin' ya?" Ryouta said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Life's pretty good for me although there's some bumpy roads in the process. I'm now working at Tokyo Stock Exchanges as senior analyst. How about you?" said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, I'm currently a senior manager at Lexicon. Been there for four years now," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Lexicon? Oh, you mean that famous private security company?" said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""That's right," Ryouta said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, I heard much about the company, and it makes a very stable portfolio in the market for past few months. And also, they have some high-profile clients too," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Ah, it's not really that special" said Ryouta which makes Takao chuckles. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""So, you still single or what?" Ryouta asked him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, I used to have a girlfriend, but we broke up a while ago, how about you?" said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I'm already married for five and half years, but my wife passed away three years ago. Cancer took her," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I'm really sorry to hear that, Ryouta. Please accept my condolence," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thanks man, It's God's plan anyway so yeah, I can only accept it although it's still a little hard for me," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""It's true, but anyway, it's nice to meet you again. Let's go to the wine section over there while we're looking for some of our old friends," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Okay" said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"They then move from to get them a glass of wine. Ryouta is looking around and his eyes suddenly locked to a group of people whose conversing each other not far from his position. It's group of familiar people that he knew so well. A woman with tied blonde hair, a woman with auburn bob hairstyle, a woman with long haired silver hair, and the last one is the woman with black low bun hairstyle and crimson eyes. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"The four of them are mingles together and sometimes having a laugh. They also dressed so elegantly with their gowns and yukata. They're already adult women but after all these years they're still easy to recognize. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"And another long-haired silver hair who has the same face like the one the on group but with different yukata joins them and she followed by an unfamiliar tall man on the same age of her and another familiar face with purple ponytail hairstyle. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta takes a sip of his wine and Takao already joining him on his side after taking the wine. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""What's you looking at so seriously man?" asked Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Them" Ryouta said. Takao then follows Ryouta's eye stare to the group and smiles. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Ah, them. Saotome Mary, Momobami sisters, Sumeragi Itsuki, Igarashi Sayaka, and Jabami Yumeko. And for the last name, I recall that you got some history with her in the past, yeah?" said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, it's not a big deal. I'm just a companion or to be more precise, she dragged me everywhere with her," said Ryouta./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, some of us thought that you actually have romance relationship with her back then because of how close you two," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Nah, it's not true. She just valued me as close friend not more. Wonder if she's still leaving on her old way or not," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Dunno, but I know what happened with some of them after all these years," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Hmm... interesting," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Like you know? Momobami Kirari has ascended to be the head leader of Bami Clan and she's also already married with the tall fella over there," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Who's that fella?" said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""He's the heir of another old family clan of Tazumi. Tazumi Shohei" said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Tazumi huh? You mean that Tazumi family who are the mining magnate of our country? That Tazumi family who have close relations to the royal family?" said Ryouta with a whisper. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, you're right, but the circling rumour around the mainstream media said that their marriage is hugely political to strengthen the position of two clans," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta just nods to the information. Honestly, seeing Kirari still keeping Sayaka around her after all these years is pretty subtle answer to that so called rumour that Takao told him. The hints already there, but people are not realizing. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""How about her twin?" said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, she's becoming her sister's vice in clan's leadership and also became one of the major holders of Bami-clan's main company group. I just did their stock analysis some few days ago," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I see," said Ryouta with a nod. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Talking about Ririka, he remembers that she always with Mary, especially during the election for student council president as they formed partnership to each other. Maybe they still do in some extend now, but he doesn't really know. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""And I guess Itsuki-San is already taking over her family's toy company too," said Ryouta./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, that's right," said Takao. He then looks around and his eyes seems already found the next group for him to mingle with. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Hey I'm going over there to say hi to my former juniors in my old school club. See you and nice talking with you, Ryouta," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, yeah. No problem," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Then, Ryouta sips his wine again. A few seconds later, Yumeko is turning her head to his direction and their eyes are accidentally meet with each other. Ryouta feels surprised but slowly turn his gaze away. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Yumeko looks confused but then she whispers to Mary which makes their eyes are looking at him right now which makes things a little awkward for him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta is unsure what to do and decides to move from the place. Just before he can take a step, Yumeko is already walking towards him and finally stops. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Uh, hi there" said Ryouta with a nervous smile. span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Hi, uh, I'm sorry, but I feel like that you're looking rather familiar when I took a glimpse on you few moments ago" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, probably. Can you guess?" said Ryouta with a little smirk. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Yumeko doesn't seems recognized him yet and he wants to plays around a little. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Hm…yeah, I'm starting to take a whole picture, but I'm not quite sure if my guess is right" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Okay, then what's your guess" said Ryouta who then takes off his hat, revealing his whole brown hair. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Yumeko is squinting his eyes to take a good look on him and after a few seconds, her crimson eyes widen. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""So, you already found your answer?" said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Are you, Suzui-san?" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta then smiles a little and nod himself. "So, you finally figured it out huh?" he said while putting back his hat on his head. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""So, it's really you, Oh my god! You look so different and a much taller than back then" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, many people said that to me actually. You look stunning by the way," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thanks, Suzui-san. By the way you are here alone? I mean I saw everyone brought their spouses and family to here" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, I'm just by myself here. The truth is, I'm already married few years back, but my wife is already passed away because of cancer" said Ryouta which makes Yumeko surprised. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Oh, I'm really sorry to hear that, Suzui-san. Bless her soul" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thank you, Yumeko," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""How long you've been married by the way?" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Around five and half years before her passing around three years ago," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I see. By the way, let's go there. Everyone must be surprised to see you again" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"She then takes Ryouta's hand which make him surprised as she takes him to mingle with Mary and the others. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"When he gets there, everyone is looking at him with confused looks as they don't have any idea who he is until Yumeko reveals that he is Suzui Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Everybody is really surprised because how different he looks after so many years since high school graduation and they also pointed out his cowboy hat style in which they found it so unique and makes him like an average American rancher. They also /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"And just like that, Ryouta is quickly warped into the conversation with them and learnt about how's everyone doing after the graduation like how Mary became Ririka's personal assistant just like how Sayaka to Kirari or Yumeko who took an unexpected turn in her life as she became a prominent artist who has her own workshop in Tokyo which makes Ryouta is surprised by that fact. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Itsuki is still saving her childish side although she's already held the most important position in her family's company and she's also already married with Manyuda Kaede, the former treasurer of student council back in Kirari's era who's now holding an important position in the Ministry of Treasury. He also already dyed his hair to its original colour of black. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta remembers how Yumeko destroyed him physically on a gambling game back in the day which turned his hair to white due to a syndrome named after the queen of France who died on Guillotine during French Revolution. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta and Yumeko also meet with some other familiar persons like Midari Ikishisma, the school former's psychopath who always carried a handgun with her, but it seems that she's calmer now and also, she now grows a long hair and her eyepatch that covers her left eye is still there too. Yumeko once hated her so much, but the way she talks nice to her, means that they already moving on and that's a good thing. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"She's coming with Nishinotouin Yuriko who apparently still maintain her traditional kimono looks but this time she's keep her hair tied and she's more talkative than she used to be. There's also Yomozuki Runa, who is apparently grow a little taller but still looks small compared to the others. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Yumemi, the former teen idol and also former student council member back in the day is already retired and now focusing her career in different genre and appeared in some movie projects too. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta and Yumeko also mingled with some of Bami-clan members who also presents to the event like Obami Rin with his brother Obami Ibara, the former swindlers who turned to be young philanthropist. There are also Totobami Terano and Totobami Yumi, Terano is now focusing on managing her law firm and Yumi is just following her everywhere like she used too. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta can say that everyone is already changed a lot in their live for the span of nearly 20 years after the graduation. He also told them his story a little bit like what's he does now and how he lost his wife in which all of them feels surprised and sympathize to him. Maybe his story of life is not an extravagant like the others, but he is happy with it. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Ah, finally the reunion party is over. It's so much fun to see everyone again" said Yumeko./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, I mean wow, everyone is changing drastically," said Ryouta. span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThen, there's a short silence between them before Yumeko speaks again. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I'm craving for a proper warm food right now, how about we find a place to eat? If that's okay with you" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, I'm okay with it and yeah, I also want to fill my belly with proper dinner too and take you back home since you came here by Uber and the night starts getting late," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""That's kind of you, Suzui-san. Thanks" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""No problem. C'mon let's go to the entrance," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"After they arrives there, Ryouta gives his car number to one of the valets and the valet is immediately rush over the parking bay. Some minutes later, Ryouta's Palisade is delivered in a spotless condition. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Here's your tip, pal. Thanks for keeping my car spotless," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thank you, Sir," said the valet. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta and Yumeko then hops on the car and Ryouta start to drives away from the convention centre. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He then goes to a desk besides the wardrobe to take his Hublot watch that he only wears to certain events. It has the accent of silver and gold. He wears it on his left wrist. For his final touch, he wears a medium sized black cowboy hat. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He drew inspiration from his favourite show on TV, Yellowstone as he copied John Dutton's formal looks. Not only from Yellowstone, from the very childhood days, Ryouta already took a liking in anything about cowboy and ranch life. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"After that he grabs his phone, car key, and wallet and put them all into his blazer's inner pocket./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Okay, everything is neat" he said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He closes the door to his bedroom and make his way downstairs. He takes a pair of shiny black pantoffle that he's also only wear in certain events from the rack near the entrance door and bring them to the living room. He sits on one of the sofas, putting the socks on and the pantoffle on. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He then looks at the clock on the wall that says "16:45 PM". The reunion event is exactly an hour and fifteen minutes from now. He gets up from the chair and gets the home keys that he stored inside a box near the TV. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Before he's out, he's making sure that everything in his home is in order. He turns off all the lamps and lock the doors. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He then opens his front gate and hops in to his already full cleaned car. He starts the engine and drive it up to the outside. He closes the gate shut and then hops back into his car and starts driving forwards. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"It will be a long one hour and thirty minutes of drive to the neighbouring prefecture where the reunion event is held. To ease off the quietness in his car, he decides to turn on the radio station. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"As he stops to the ongoing red-light on an intersection, his mind wondering about what would he expect or meet on the reunion party. Everybody must be old right now and looks so different. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Some of them are now probably politicians, some of then are now maybe sitting on top of their family's business, or maybe they created new ones for them using the fortunes that they already got from their family and their time of wagering in high school. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Besides the big shots of gamblers that he knew back then, he can say that basically everyone in the school is crazy and sometimes showing psychopath and sociopath traits depends on the level. Sometimes, when he thought about it, he feels that he might be the only one who's sane enough on the ocean of maniacs although at some extend, he enjoys the stake of gambling. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Their facial expression, the way they look to each other, is just primal. He remembered well on his lowest time when his status at school relegated to "pet" or basically sub-human where everyone can treat him in every possible horrible way. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He became foot-stool, people are spat on him, and so many others and he's about to meet them again in this reunion. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"That's the world that he lives in. It's full of harsh realities and he learnt much from it. And even until today, he still found fragments of implementation of what he sees back in school in society that he currently lives in as adult. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"On the other hand, he also thought that, maybe after all these years, their freakish side already reduced a lot or probably not as they tend to be more hidden. But basically, humans are living in some kind of drama with their mask. At least, that is his understanding from a sociology book that he read a long time ago. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"But behind all of that fakeness, there's always hidden truth, love, and pure kindness. Not all things are going like to the way everybody will have trust issue to each other. Like when he found the love of his life is one of many examples. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Back then, he also saw competitions everywhere, but he realized that life is not always goes like that. Hard work is a must to stay alive, but sometimes, pulling the slow tempo is needed. Just flow like the calm river like his late wife said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"…./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"After an hour-long drive, Ryouta finally arrives at the convention centre. He is in awe on how big it is. It's shaped like a massive dome and the premises is already filled with cars in front of him already lining up to enters the front ground. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Oh boy, the medias are here too" said Ryouta to his mind as he sees some people are preparing cameras and other broadcasting stuff. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Well, some days before, he saw a news coverage on one of the online media that told that Hyakkaou Academy's reunion event will be the largest in history of Japan with more than 2500 participants. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"When Ryouta read the news, he also thinks that it's not only being the largest attendances, but also what kind of people who attended the event. It's the perfect arena to making some fresh new connections. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"From afar, Ryouta can see dozens of valets waiting in front of the main entrance of the convention centre. They take guest cars and giving the owners some kind of numbers in small paper that must be given back to the valets once they want to get off at the end of the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"It's really helpful for him since finding parking spot on his own will be troublesome and waste of time. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"The car queue is slowly reduced and it's now his time to gets off. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Good evening, Sir" said one of the valets as he opens Ryouta's car door. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Good evening, the key is still there. Keep it spotless" said Ryouta to the valet as he gets off from his car. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yes, Sir. Here's your number and when you off later, give this to one of the valets, so they can take your car to you" said the valet while handing him the number. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thank you" said Ryouta as he immediately put the number paper on his shirt's pocket. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"After that, he makes his way to the inside. Ryouta then goes to the receptionist table to register while some people is looking at him with amazed look on their face. Probably because of his cowboy hat. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Good evening, sir, May I see your invitation?" said one of the receptionists. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Wait" said Ryouta as pulls out his phone and shows the invitation to the receptionist. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Ah, Mr. Suzui Ryouta. Class of 2017. Here's your souvenir and the event are on the second floor on the main hall, enjoy your time, Sir," said the receptionist. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thank you," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"He then makes his way to one of the lifts and press the button to second floor. He's the only one here and the easy listening music on the lift is kind of catchy too. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"As he arrives at the second floor. It's already flooded with people who dressed the same like him for the man and for the women, they dressed in either fancy gown or elegant kimono. Some people then turned their attention to him and whispers to each other's. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""emWho's that handsome cowboy-looking man/em?" said one of them in whispers. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""emI don't know, but that hat surely fits for him/em" said the another. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta don't pay too much attention to them and make his way straight to the hall. When he gets there, he's immediately in awe of the decorations of the hall. The crowds are chatting lively to each other's. There's a huge stage where a band plays jazz song too and huge banner which says "Welcome back Class of 2016, 2017, and 2018". /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Then, Ryouta starts looking around while walking between the crowds. Everyone is already changing so much and some of them are bringing their kids too. Some of them are looking at Ryouta too. Probably for his cowboy hat. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Then, a man who wears a grey suit with well groomed moustache is approaching him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Hey, excuse me. Are you by any chance, Suzui Ryouta from Class of 2017?" he said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta looks at him with confused looks. "Yeah, I 'am, but I'm sorry because it's been a long time and all, but who you might be?" he said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""It's me man, Takao. Musashi Takao" he said with enthusiastic gesture. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta squints his eyes and immediately smile. He recognized him. Takao is one of Ryouta's few friends in Hyakkaou style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThey are classmates in their first and third years of high school. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Oh, Lord. It's really you. What's up, fella. You look so different" said Ryouta while they doing a casual handshake. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I'm good man, and wow, that cowboy hat really suits you so much and you also look so different too and I almost not recognized you," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thanks man and the moustache you have there is really neat. So, after all these years, how's life treatin' ya?" Ryouta said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Life's pretty good for me although there's some bumpy roads in the process. I'm now working at Tokyo Stock Exchanges as senior analyst. How about you?" said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, I'm currently a senior manager at Lexicon. Been there for four years now," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Lexicon? Oh, you mean that famous private security company?" said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""That's right," Ryouta said. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, I heard much about the company, and it makes a very stable portfolio in the market for past few months. And also, they have some high-profile clients too," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Ah, it's not really that special" said Ryouta which makes Takao chuckles. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""So, you still single or what?" Ryouta asked him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, I used to have a girlfriend, but we broke up a while ago, how about you?" said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I'm already married for five and half years, but my wife passed away three years ago. Cancer took her," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I'm really sorry to hear that, Ryouta. Please accept my condolence," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thanks man, It's God's plan anyway so yeah, I can only accept it although it's still a little hard for me," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""It's true, but anyway, it's nice to meet you again. Let's go to the wine section over there while we're looking for some of our old friends," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Okay" said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"They then move from to get them a glass of wine. Ryouta is looking around and his eyes suddenly locked to a group of people whose conversing each other not far from his position. It's group of familiar people that he knew so well. A woman with tied blonde hair, a woman with auburn bob hairstyle, a woman with long haired silver hair, and the last one is the woman with black low bun hairstyle and crimson eyes. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"The four of them are mingles together and sometimes having a laugh. They also dressed so elegantly with their gowns and yukata. They're already adult women but after all these years they're still easy to recognize. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"And another long-haired silver hair who has the same face like the one the on group but with different yukata joins them and she followed by an unfamiliar tall man on the same age of her and another familiar face with purple ponytail hairstyle. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta takes a sip of his wine and Takao already joining him on his side after taking the wine. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""What's you looking at so seriously man?" asked Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Them" Ryouta said. Takao then follows Ryouta's eye stare to the group and smiles. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Ah, them. Saotome Mary, Momobami sisters, Sumeragi Itsuki, Igarashi Sayaka, and Jabami Yumeko. And for the last name, I recall that you got some history with her in the past, yeah?" said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, it's not a big deal. I'm just a companion or to be more precise, she dragged me everywhere with her," said Ryouta./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, some of us thought that you actually have romance relationship with her back then because of how close you two," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Nah, it's not true. She just valued me as close friend not more. Wonder if she's still leaving on her old way or not," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Dunno, but I know what happened with some of them after all these years," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Hmm... interesting," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Like you know? Momobami Kirari has ascended to be the head leader of Bami Clan and she's also already married with the tall fella over there," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Who's that fella?" said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""He's the heir of another old family clan of Tazumi. Tazumi Shohei" said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Tazumi huh? You mean that Tazumi family who are the mining magnate of our country? That Tazumi family who have close relations to the royal family?" said Ryouta with a whisper. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, you're right, but the circling rumour around the mainstream media said that their marriage is hugely political to strengthen the position of two clans," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta just nods to the information. Honestly, seeing Kirari still keeping Sayaka around her after all these years is pretty subtle answer to that so called rumour that Takao told him. The hints already there, but people are not realizing. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""How about her twin?" said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, she's becoming her sister's vice in clan's leadership and also became one of the major holders of Bami-clan's main company group. I just did their stock analysis some few days ago," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I see," said Ryouta with a nod. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Talking about Ririka, he remembers that she always with Mary, especially during the election for student council president as they formed partnership to each other. Maybe they still do in some extend now, but he doesn't really know. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""And I guess Itsuki-San is already taking over her family's toy company too," said Ryouta./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, that's right," said Takao. He then looks around and his eyes seems already found the next group for him to mingle with. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Hey I'm going over there to say hi to my former juniors in my old school club. See you and nice talking with you, Ryouta," said Takao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, yeah. No problem," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Then, Ryouta sips his wine again. A few seconds later, Yumeko is turning her head to his direction and their eyes are accidentally meet with each other. Ryouta feels surprised but slowly turn his gaze away. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Yumeko looks confused but then she whispers to Mary which makes their eyes are looking at him right now which makes things a little awkward for him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta is unsure what to do and decides to move from the place. Just before he can take a step, Yumeko is already walking towards him and finally stops. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Uh, hi there" said Ryouta with a nervous smile. span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Hi, uh, I'm sorry, but I feel like that you're looking rather familiar when I took a glimpse on you few moments ago" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, probably. Can you guess?" said Ryouta with a little smirk. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Yumeko doesn't seems recognized him yet and he wants to plays around a little. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Hm…yeah, I'm starting to take a whole picture, but I'm not quite sure if my guess is right" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Okay, then what's your guess" said Ryouta who then takes off his hat, revealing his whole brown hair. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Yumeko is squinting his eyes to take a good look on him and after a few seconds, her crimson eyes widen. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""So, you already found your answer?" said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Are you, Suzui-san?" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta then smiles a little and nod himself. "So, you finally figured it out huh?" he said while putting back his hat on his head. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""So, it's really you, Oh my god! You look so different and a much taller than back then" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, many people said that to me actually. You look stunning by the way," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thanks, Suzui-san. By the way you are here alone? I mean I saw everyone brought their spouses and family to here" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, I'm just by myself here. The truth is, I'm already married few years back, but my wife is already passed away because of cancer" said Ryouta which makes Yumeko surprised. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Oh, I'm really sorry to hear that, Suzui-san. Bless her soul" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thank you, Yumeko," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""How long you've been married by the way?" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Around five and half years before her passing around three years ago," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I see. By the way, let's go there. Everyone must be surprised to see you again" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"She then takes Ryouta's hand which make him surprised as she takes him to mingle with Mary and the others. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"When he gets there, everyone is looking at him with confused looks as they don't have any idea who he is until Yumeko reveals that he is Suzui Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Everybody is really surprised because how different he looks after so many years since high school graduation and they also pointed out his cowboy hat style in which they found it so unique and makes him like an average American rancher. They also /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"And just like that, Ryouta is quickly warped into the conversation with them and learnt about how's everyone doing after the graduation like how Mary became Ririka's personal assistant just like how Sayaka to Kirari or Yumeko who took an unexpected turn in her life as she became a prominent artist who has her own workshop in Tokyo which makes Ryouta is surprised by that fact. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Itsuki is still saving her childish side although she's already held the most important position in her family's company and she's also already married with Manyuda Kaede, the former treasurer of student council back in Kirari's era who's now holding an important position in the Ministry of Treasury. He also already dyed his hair to its original colour of black. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta remembers how Yumeko destroyed him physically on a gambling game back in the day which turned his hair to white due to a syndrome named after the queen of France who died on Guillotine during French Revolution. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta and Yumeko also meet with some other familiar persons like Midari Ikishisma, the school former's psychopath who always carried a handgun with her, but it seems that she's calmer now and also, she now grows a long hair and her eyepatch that covers her left eye is still there too. Yumeko once hated her so much, but the way she talks nice to her, means that they already moving on and that's a good thing. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"She's coming with Nishinotouin Yuriko who apparently still maintain her traditional kimono looks but this time she's keep her hair tied and she's more talkative than she used to be. There's also Yomozuki Runa, who is apparently grow a little taller but still looks small compared to the others. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Yumemi, the former teen idol and also former student council member back in the day is already retired and now focusing her career in different genre and appeared in some movie projects too. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta and Yumeko also mingled with some of Bami-clan members who also presents to the event like Obami Rin with his brother Obami Ibara, the former swindlers who turned to be young philanthropist. There are also Totobami Terano and Totobami Yumi, Terano is now focusing on managing her law firm and Yumi is just following her everywhere like she used too. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta can say that everyone is already changed a lot in their live for the span of nearly 20 years after the graduation. He also told them his story a little bit like what's he does now and how he lost his wife in which all of them feels surprised and sympathize to him. Maybe his story of life is not an extravagant like the others, but he is happy with it. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Ah, finally the reunion party is over. It's so much fun to see everyone again" said Yumeko./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Yeah, I mean wow, everyone is changing drastically," said Ryouta. span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThen, there's a short silence between them before Yumeko speaks again. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""I'm craving for a proper warm food right now, how about we find a place to eat? If that's okay with you" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Well, I'm okay with it and yeah, I also want to fill my belly with proper dinner too and take you back home since you came here by Uber and the night starts getting late," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""That's kind of you, Suzui-san. Thanks" said Yumeko. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""No problem. C'mon let's go to the entrance," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"After they arrives there, Ryouta gives his car number to one of the valets and the valet is immediately rush over the parking bay. Some minutes later, Ryouta's Palisade is delivered in a spotless condition. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Here's your tip, pal. Thanks for keeping my car spotless," said Ryouta. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;""Thank you, Sir," said the valet. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;"Ryouta and Yumeko then hops on the car and Ryouta start to drives away from the convention centre. /span/p